"How could it be ......," he chuckled, took the jade pendant into his arms, and said, "The official also wants to know how this thing appeared at the scene of the murder." ”

"Homicide?" Xie Yu was surprised, and suddenly understood what he meant by coming this time.

"The adult is suspicious, the little girl killed someone?"

"To kill or not to kill, it still needs to be investigated by the official."

He bit the word "good" very hard, raised the reins, pressed his hand on the handle of the knife on his waist, and said: "Whether it is good or evil, the official knows it, and asks the girl to go to Dali Temple with the official to assist in the investigation." ”

"I-"

"Wait!" A pink figure rushed out of the crowd, Xie Yu turned his head to look, and saw Mu Tao rushing forward in a hurry, raising his hand and grabbing her sleeve.

After the toss just now, a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, although she was frightened in her heart, she still raised her head to Chen Zheng's unruly cold face, trembled her throat, and said: "Today is the day she marries into the Taiwei Mansion, and the sedan chair of the Taiwei Mansion is about to arrive. ”

Chen Zheng's eagle eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes looking at Mu Tao were a little colder, Xie Yu secretly said in his heart that it was not good, and in the next second, a long knife with cold light was across Mu Tao's white neck.

There was a burst of exclamations in the crowd, Mu Tao's beautiful face had already lost her color in fright, and she couldn't stop shivering, cold as ice, she closed her eyes tightly, and didn't dare to look down.

A drop of cold sweat slipped down her forehead.

"You're threatening me with high art?"

Mu Tao's fingers trembled uncontrollably, and the next moment he was held into a warm and delicate soft wattle.

"Don't implicate the innocent, they are all hard-working people, and it is reasonable to be afraid of you magnates, so why should you be aggressive."

Chen Zheng's eyes flashed, and the hand holding the knife was unconsciously loosened for a moment.

Xie Yu's eyes were murmuring, and he stretched out two fingers to pinch the sharp blade and move it away from Mu Tao's neck.

Between the slender jade fingers was a cold blade glowing with bloody gas, and this picture inexplicably made his eyebrows jump.

Chen Zheng put away the knife, turned the horse's head, and stopped looking at her.

"Take it away."

Two officials stepped forward and grabbed her arm, one left and one right.

"Little Jade ......"

"Don't worry, it's okay, I haven't broken the law, I believe this lord can judge right from wrong and return my innocence."

Xie Yu's eyes glanced around inadvertently.

Chen Zheng didn't seem to hear what she said, his legs clamped, and the group galloped towards the street as they came, and everyone watched the team gradually move away until it disappeared at the end of the long street.

On the second floor of the tea shop opposite Xunhua Building, Han Yan sat by the window and took in everything that happened downstairs.

He looked at the corner of the street where the sedan chair had disappeared, put down the cold teacup in his hand, and got up to leave.

Dali Temple, the middle hall of the penal book.

Xie Yu was brought up by the officials, her eyes lowered, and she looked as supple as always, but Chen Zheng, who was sitting on it, couldn't see the slightest fear in her, but instead made this cold inner hall and the cold-faced and ruthless officials around her become decorations.

"Xie Yu ......" he smacked the name, "There is a saying in the capital, looking for Wang Sun Yi, it is difficult to see jade, in normal times, whether it is the power of the government and the opposition, or the rich side, even if it is a prince and nobleman, as long as you don't want to show up, you can't even see a single hair of Xie Oiran." ”

Xie Yu raised her head, a pair of clear eyes glowing with water, her eyes were very large, her eyes were black and white, and her temperament became more and more clean and pure.

Chen Zheng lowered his head and smiled.

"Why would this Xie Huakui, who is famous for his coldness and loneliness in Beijing, agree to be a concubine for a man who has already married a wife and is thirty years older than her?"

"A dusty woman, taking advantage of her youth, to give herself a good way out, this matter is normal." Xie Yu narrowed his gaze and said softly.

"It may be normal for you, but from what I know about Taiwei Gao, he is not a person who covets beauty, and Mrs. Gao governs the family very strictly, so I am afraid that she will not agree to him taking a concubine," Chen Zheng looked at the person standing below with interest, "How did you win the favor of Gao Shu, so that he could accept you into the mansion despite public opinion?" ”

He got up and walked to the bottom of the hall, his sharp gaze firmly fixed on Xie Yu, as if he wanted to see through her from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside.

This gaze was naked, undisguised, but different from the way those fun-seeking men looked at her on weekdays, like a jackal meeting a hare, without much charm, looking at her as if she was looking at a favorite prey.

"I don't know why this adult cares so much about the little girl's private affairs? Could it be that this is the case...... Is it also related to tall adults? ”

Chen Zheng was stunned, but he didn't expect her to be so direct.

Even so, it saves some effort, and I don't have to beat around the bush with her.

"Where were you when you were ugly yesterday?"

"Go back to my lord, in the flower building."

"Who's the witness?"

"The girls in the Flower Hunt can all testify."

"What else?" He rubbed the jade pendant in his hand, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes.

Xie Yu seemed to be puzzled: "When it was ugly, everyone had already stopped, except for the people around the little girl, there was nothing else." ”

Chen Zheng sneered: "It's true elsewhere, it's just that this Hualou, at this hour, I'm afraid that it will still be singing and dancing, and it will destroy the soul." ”

Xie Yu's eyes moved slightly: "There is indeed no one else." ”

Chen Zheng turned his footsteps and said to himself: "This piece of jade pendant in my hand is the personal belongings of Lord Feng of the Ministry of Industry, and it was found to fall on the place where he died last night, there is nothing suspicious about this, but the fragrance on it is really unique, the official inquired a little, and learned that this thing is called Yun Nixiang, which was personally adjusted by the head card of Xunhualou, and it can't be found elsewhere, don't you say strange?" ”

Xie Yu shook her head: "The little girl doesn't know, it's just that this incense making method is unique, and the fragrance has been left for a long time. ”

Chen Zheng seemed to have expected her to say such a thing, and said aloud to the side: "You say." ”

Xie Yu was stunned for a moment, and a thin man who looked like a small guy slowly walked out of his side, this person was trembling, and was called out by Chen Zheng's voice, and knelt on the ground with a "poof".